On the Department for Education website, it is possible - through no fault of your own - to end up logged in as someone else. When this happens, it is possible to see people's account details, including passwords, in the clear. Pics or it didn't happen, you say? Read on...

For a while now, I have been looking into various ways and means of developing cross-platform games, and have come to the conclusion that they all suck. With the current state of the art, it would appear that the best one can do is pick the best of a bad bunch.

I just spent the last two or three hours learning an important lesson about classes, structs, POD types & argument passing in C#. They have some nasty fundamental differences from their C++ counterparts, and the language is not to be approached on the assumption that "hey, I know object orientation, what can possibly go wrong?"